Safety match-box.



G. PERERA SAFETY MATCH BOX.

APPLICATION FILED 111111.13, 1911.

1,236,753. P31611161 Aug. 14,1917.

IN VEN TOR;

gulyo Ferzra: 5 W4 ATTORNEY GUIDQ PEBERA, 0F N'EW YOBK, N. Y.

SAFETY MATCH-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 14, 1917.

Application filed March 8, 1917. Serial No. 158,466.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUIDO PERERA, a subject of the King of Italy, residin at New York, in the county and State of ew York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety Match-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a safety match box and has as its object to provide a match box with a surface on which the matches are adapted to be lighted, so arranged that'it can be used only when the match box is closed and, when the latter is opened-sufliciently to take out matches therefrom, the surface on which the match may be lighted is hidden, thereby preventing accidents which very often happen when a match is struck While the match box is openand the whole contents of the box flare up.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device, seen from the bottom, in its closed position;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, with the box opened;

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of the match box, the section being taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by arrows.

The same part is designated by the same reference character throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, 4 is the box proper such as is commonly used, having four sides and a bottom and open at the top. 5-is an outer cover or sleeve in.

which the box proper lis adapted to slide freely back and forth, the matches contained thereinbeing accessible only when one end of the box proper is pulled out of the sleeve 5 in about the proportion seen in Fig. 2.

Thus far the construction of my match box is the same as of those in use at present, but it differs therefrom in the location of the striking or lighting surface which in ordinary match boxes is applied to the side of the sleeve 5. This surface is either rough or chemically prepared to light a match when in frictional contact therewith and,

' in my device, it is placed on the backside of the bottom of the box pro er 4, as at 7, across thereof, at its longitu inal center. A corresponding portion is cut out of the sleeve 5, as at 6, with which portion the lighting surface 7 registers in the closed position of the box, as shown in Fig. 1, whereas when the box is open, as in Fi 2, the lighting surface 7 disappears, er the sleeve 5, thereby accomplishing the resultwhich I have described as the object of my invention.

A match box having telescoping inner and outer members, the inner member being dprovided with a match striking surface an the outer having, intermediate of its length, an-

opening whlch is substantially co-extensive with, and is adapted for registration with and elxposure of said match striking surface 0 y when the box members are in their closed relative positions.

v I GUIDO PERERA. 

